Missing Caffeine

About a week and a half ago, I quit consuming caffeine. It was about as much fun as you’d imagine, and only the past 3 or 4 days have been headache free. I actually think my plan to taper off was dumb, and I should have quit cold turkey. I ended up with a headache for over a week rather than the 3 or so days I was expecting.

I’m a little surprised at how things have turned out.

I miss the caffeine. I really do. For the life of me, however, I can’t figure out why I miss it. Perhaps it is a status symbol. I’m a computer guy, and consuming mass quantities of the precious molecule sorta goes with the territory. Also, Coke Zero doesn’t come in decaf — which totally sucks.

What surprises me is that I’m not tired in the morning like I used to be. Oh, I’m still tired because I’m not a morning person in general. But I’m not tired nearly as dreadfully when I was hooked on java. Also, I don’t get sleepy around 1:30PM like I did just a few weeks ago. In fact, I find myself being perhaps more jittery than I was when I drank 3-4 pots of coffee a day.

Maybe I’m using the wrong words. Maybe it’s not “jittery” and it’s just “energetic.” That could be it.

So while I still miss the coffee culture, and the caffeine “cool factor” — I guess at the end of the day I’m happier without it. How weird is that? Don’t answer. I already know. 😉

I quit drinking so much caffeine myself a while back (good for you!). I still have a soda now and then, but it’s rare. I feel SO much better. It’s weird… I’m like – well, awake, in the mornings and I don’t fall into bed exhausted. Well I do now, but that’s because I’m overworked and in a really foul mood overall LOL

I’m giving up a major vice already. All other vices become, by default, virtues since they’ll keep me from losing my ever-lovin’ mind. I’ll put down the coffee when you pry my BAM out of my cold, dead hand.

Yeah, I don’t understand feeling “energetic” without drinking eleventy billion cups of coffee a day — but as weird as it is, I’m going to keep doing it. (Doctor’s orders actually, I didn’t voluntarily quit the good stuff)

NO COFFEE?
I don’t think I could do it. It is 8:54am and I am on my 5th cup..and there will be many many more. My doc had once said I should stop drinking coffee…I was working days/afternoons and midnights all in the same week, and it was the only thing that kept me going. I let her live, cause doctors of course are in great shortage around here.

Yeah for being headache free..and you are a stronger man than I for making it through.

I accidentally went without coffee yesterday morning. I couldn’t lift my head from the table until about lunch time. Now I have to say “sorry” to a lot of people at work and think up a story why I was in such a foul mood.

I’m a pretty lightly caffeinated guy, but I do need my jolt in the morning. I’m pretty useless without it. Because of the whole pancreas thing, I’m not allowed to touch a drop of alcohol for the next 6 months or so. (Doctor will reassess and let me know when light consumption may be permissible.)

On, the one hand, I really don’t miss having a drink when I want one (except for a mild pang when the idea first pops into my head), but I also find that I’m sleeping less soundly than I’m used to.

I think I have caffeine immunity at this point. I can literally fall asleep in my big chair watching television as I’m enjoying a nice cup of coffee, only to wake up to the slurping sounds of my cocker spaniel standing on the end table with his muzzle in the mug drinking what’s left of the coffee.